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| Diana Huffaker joins Cardiff University to lead research lab | Diana Huffaker joins Cardiff University to lead research lab |
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| A "truly outstanding" professor will lead a new research laboratory at Cardiff University. | A "truly outstanding" professor will lead a new research laboratory at Cardiff University. |
| Diana Huffaker, of the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) will become chairwoman in advanced engineering and materials. | |
| She is the fourth appointment in the Welsh government's £50m Ser Cymru scheme. | She is the fourth appointment in the Welsh government's £50m Ser Cymru scheme. |
| Prof Huffaker's laboratory will research nanotechnology to be used in a range of devices. | Prof Huffaker's laboratory will research nanotechnology to be used in a range of devices. |
| Prof Huffaker is an expert in compound semiconductors - the technology behind devices including smart phones and computer tablets. | Prof Huffaker is an expert in compound semiconductors - the technology behind devices including smart phones and computer tablets. |
| She also hopes to attract other researchers to the university from around Europe to use the facilities - and help to develop products for business. | |
| She said: "My research vision is to bring the promise of nanoscale physics to collect and transmit information using light with exquisite speed and sensitivity. | She said: "My research vision is to bring the promise of nanoscale physics to collect and transmit information using light with exquisite speed and sensitivity. |
| "With the Ser Cymru investment, I shall build an extensive user facility for materials and nanostructure synthesis not currently available in UK." | "With the Ser Cymru investment, I shall build an extensive user facility for materials and nanostructure synthesis not currently available in UK." |
| SOMETHING BIG FROM SOMETHING SMALL | SOMETHING BIG FROM SOMETHING SMALL |
| ANALYSIS from Sarah Dickins, BBC Wales economics correspondent | |
| Thirty years ago, Inmos in Newport symbolised the arrival of a new industrial development - silicon wafer production - which were the tiny processors behind some of our favourite electronic items. Now the excitement is about composite semiconductors. | |
| They carry information more quickly than silicon, they conduct electricity very efficiently and can convert electricity into light. | |
| Examples are all around us, including sensors, lasers and heat detectors but they are also at the centre of a whole new generation of research. | |
| Prof Diana Huffaker has already worked with the Cardiff semiconductors company IQE as part of her research at UCLA in California. | |
| Now that she has come to take up this new chair just a few miles away at Cardiff University they will continue working together. | |
| At the moment IQE has 100 highly skilled workers in St Mellons and 500 others around the world. | |
| The company's products are in many of our domestic appliances but the hope is of mushrooming of similar firms so the next generation of technological developments - from the ideas stage right through to manufacturing and patenting - will come from Wales. | |
| Marking director Chris Meadows says Wales could then become well placed to become a European hub for the composite semiconductor industry. | |
| It's a big ambition but we also know that the EU is talking about re-industrialisation in Europe. If the various groups working together did manage to pull it off, it could make real long term changes to the Welsh economy. | |
| The university's vice-chancellor, Prof Colin Riordan, added: "Prof Diana Huffaker is a truly outstanding researcher, with a record of research excellence in areas of global impact and strategic importance not only to Cardiff University, but also to Wales." | The university's vice-chancellor, Prof Colin Riordan, added: "Prof Diana Huffaker is a truly outstanding researcher, with a record of research excellence in areas of global impact and strategic importance not only to Cardiff University, but also to Wales." |
| Minister for economy and science, Edwina Hart, said Prof Huffaker brings "a wealth of knowledge and expertise". | Minister for economy and science, Edwina Hart, said Prof Huffaker brings "a wealth of knowledge and expertise". |